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Analysis and Design of Pavement Structure

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2024 | Viewed by 865

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Joao Victor Staub De Melo

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Department of Civil Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis 88040-970, SC, Brazil
Interests: pavement structures; pavement design and analysis; performance; modeling

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The pavement is a layered structure, composed of different materials, designed to resist traffic and climate action, and to provide users with adequate conditions of comfort, economy and safety. The design of a pavement consists of defining a structure that resists and transmits to the subgrade the stresses imposed by traffic without causing the system to rupture or enabling excessive deformations and wear, maintaining its operational condition in service. Therefore, the design and structural analysis phase requires knowledge of the characteristics of the materials and their behavior in relation to the application of loads and the climate, as well as the performance of numerical and statistical simulation. The purpose of the Special Issue, entitled "Analysis and Design of Pavement Structure”, is to cover topics related to the structural design and analysis of pavement systems, considering current and future issues. In this sense, it aims to offer a platform for the publication of research of immediate interest on the following potential topics: design and modeling of pavement behavior and performance; structural evaluation; stress/strain and thermal characterization and/or calculation; climate effects in numerical and analytical modelling; advanced analytical and computational techniques; novel design approaches and their implementation; bound and unbound pavement performance. In addition to road infrastructure, contributions related to airport and port pavements are also welcome.

Dr. Joao Victor Staub De Melo
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • asphalt pavement
  • concrete pavement
  • structural design
  • structural modeling
  • long-term performance
  • pavement design and analysis
  • pavement failures
  • structural and functional performance
  • full scale simulation

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Integrating Tensometer Measurements, Elastic Half-Space Modeling, and Long-Term Pavement Performance Data into a Mechanistic–Empirical Pavement Performance Model
by Matúš Kozel, Ľuboš Remek, Katarína Ilovská, Grzegorz Mazurek and Przemysław Buczyński
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(9), 3880; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14093880 - 30 Apr 2024
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Pavement performance models (PPMs) are utilized to predict pavement network conditions which is an essential part of any sustainable pavement management system (PMS). The reliability of a PMS and its outputs is proportional to the reliability of the PPM used. This article describes [...] Read more.
Pavement performance models (PPMs) are utilized to predict pavement network conditions which is an essential part of any sustainable pavement management system (PMS). The reliability of a PMS and its outputs is proportional to the reliability of the PPM used. This article describes a mechanistic–empirical pavement performance model based on pavement response parameters—strains calculated in the pavement layers measured by tensometers embedded in the pavement surface and verified by calculations in the elastic half-space model and supplemented by empirical data from long-term pavement performance monitoring and accelerated pavement testing. Hence, the herein described PPM combines pavement serviceability evaluation, pavement bearing capacity, and the physico-mechanistic properties of paving materials. The analytical methods which were used to ascertain the physico-mechanistic characteristics, the material fatigue degradation model, and the surface degradation, unevenness in particular, are described. A comparison of the empirical PPM created in the last century used by the national road administrator to this day and the newly created PPM is presented. The comparison shows the difference in the calculated socio-economic benefits and subsequent cost–benefit analysis results. The comparison shows that the use of the old PPM may have produced false economic evaluation results that have led to poor decision making, partially explaining the unsustainable trend of road network management in our country. Full article
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